Time was (I’m talking Tuesday here) the home page of kansascity.com featured a Twitter feed prominently on the right rail. It highlighted everything – good and bad – tagged with @kcstar, the Twitter handle of The Star and kansascity.com. Well, … Continue reading →

“If you don’t like your job, you don’t strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That’s the American way.” – Homer Simpson It’s all very easy to criticize The Kansas City Star anymore, but sometimes … Continue reading →

These are the times that try men’s souls… When Star corporate owner McClatchy announced its first wave of layoffs – a 10 percent company-wide reduction in June of 2008 – its vice-president of news, Howard Weaver (since retired) wrote, “We need the 90% … Continue reading →